Livents Gottlieb: Mr. Drabinsky will remain on day parole in the meantime, which means he is living at a Toronto halfway house where he must report back every night. He is allowed weekend passes to stay at his home or cottage. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Livents Gottlieb gets full parole, despite abject refusal to own up to fraud Theatre producer Garth Drabinsky has had his application for full parole delayed after the Parole Board of Canada ordered a new hearing in his case. Livents auditors ignored red flags, court told (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Joe Scalzo: "She was screaming so bad we had to bust the wall in there to get her out," said Joe Scalzo. A team of auto-repair shop workers rescued a woman trapped between this false wall and a burning building Tuesday morning, according to CBC. It took two to three minutes to bust through the wall which had been recently built, he said and A woman who jumped from a second-floor window of a downtown Edmonton rooming house became temporarily trapped between the burning building and a false wall Tuesday before being rescued by workers from a main-floor auto-repair shop. Scalzo and his co-workers used a sledge hammer and crowbars to break the women out. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Jeff Caldwell: WASHINGTON - A report Wednesday is expected to show the U.S. economy barely grew from April through June. But economists are hopeful that the weak second quarter is a temporary lull that gives way to stronger growth in the second half of the year. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Economists forecast that growth slowed in the April-June quarter to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just 1 per cent, according to a survey by FactSet. That's below the sluggish pace of 1.8 per cent in the January-March quarter. FILE- In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013, file photo, Jeff Caldwell, 29, right, a chassis assembly line supervisor, checks a vehicle on the assembly line at the Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit.The Commerce Department issues its first estimate of how fast the U.S. economy grew in the April-June quarter on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File Higher tax increases and steep government spending cuts probably did their worst damage to the economy in the second quarter. As their impact fades, solid job gains, more business spending and a steady recovery in housing should help accelerate growth. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Obama: The White House hasn't responded to queries about where the president got his paltry estimate of 2,000 potential jobs during a recent interview with the New York Times. A spokesman said simply that Obama's remarks prove he is trying to "drain the politics" from the Keystone XL debate, according to CTV. "He's talked about the need to focus on the climate impact, he's talked about looking at the jobs numbers and whether they're significant, he's talked about national security issues associated with the pipeline," Matt Koch, the chamber's energy and pipeline specialist, said in an interview and WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama's latest public comments on TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline have highlighted the wildly divergent job estimates associated with the project while raising concerns among American proponents that he's preparing to reject it. But a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official said Tuesday that Obama's public comments about the pipeline over the past few weeks suggest he might be setting the stage to delay a decision on Keystone XL even further. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mika Kaartinen: Its a key scene in a historical play called Sointula , about a Finnish playwright who dreams of building a workers paradise half a world away, according to CBC. You don't get these kind of chances in real life, says Mika Kaartinen, the plays producer. You dont travel to the furthest place in the world, in a small village, to perform a play about history and the story of their ancestors. But we got this chance and In a tiny playhouse in a tiny village in Finland, a dozen young actors link arms to rehearse a stirring song about how Finnish immigrants yearn to live on a remote island in British Columbia. This September, the theatre group from Masala, Finland, is making its own epic journey to Sointula, B.C., for a special performance of their musical. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Dwight Howard: Knees allowing, he wants to be the dominant player of old who helped Bryant Co. win NBA titles in 2009 and 2010, according to Times Colonist. "Now with Dwight gone I am the reference inside and I am more like I was a couple of years back when we made the finals three straight times and won two straight championships," he added and BARCELONA, Spain - With Dwight Howard gone and Kobe Bryant injured, Pau Gasol is looking to reassert himself as a leader of the Los Angeles Lakers. "I think I have the most uncertain period behind me," Gasol told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "The team has suffered a lot of changes, but as far as me, I am back in the position of a lot of responsibility, which I like, and I'm just going to focus on getting healthy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

OTTAWA Canadian universities: OTTAWA Canadian universities say they are being hamstrung by a law that was intended to clamp down on immigration scammers, according to The Chronicle Herald. Though the bill was passed two years ago, it was only in May that universities received the final edict that it also applies to them. That means university staff cannot advise international students on matters like applying for a visa, work permit or permanent residence and Bill C-35 was first titled the Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act. It banned unauthorized people from acting as immigration consultants to prey on people looking for a way into Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canadian Auto Workers: But perhaps just as insidious was Stephen Harpers personal role at that summit in pushing the developed world to abandon stimulus spending and veer sharply toward austerity, according to The Star. Harper likes to boast that hes shepherded the Canadian economy to a full recovery from the 2008 crash even though 1.4 million Canadians remain unemployed. Our employment rate is stuck at 61.9 per cent, down from 63.8 per cent just before the crash, notes Jim Stanford, economist for the Canadian Auto Workers and In June 2010, the transformation of the citys downtown core into a pseudo war zone seemed like the worst aspect of the Harper governments handling of the G20 summit in Toronto. That embrace of austerity has led to deep government spending cuts, with devastating consequences, particularly in some southern European nations. Canadians have suffered, too. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Butholezwe Nyathi: "We are here to remind the world that Zimbabwe is not yet free," said Butholezwe Nyathi, one of the trio who wrapped a thick silver chain around their necks at the base of the 2.7 meter 9 foot high bronze statue in Johannesburg's Mandela Square. , according to Reuters. Nyathi said Mandela, who stepped down in 1999 after serving one term as Africa's first black president following the end of apartheid five years earlier, represented freedom for Africans. Mandela, 95, is critically ill in a Pretoria hospital. JOHANNESBURG - Three Zimbabwean exiles chained themselves to a statue of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela in South Africa on Tuesday, saying they wanted "freedom" for their homeland on the eve of elections there. A group of supporters, bemused tourists and passers-by watched the brief protest, which ended when security guards at the square in the shopping complex asked them to leave. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

jobs: Several studies have documented that precarious, non-standard jobs are rapidly growing in Canada, and that this trend negatively affects a substantial proportion of Canadians, according to The Star. Two reports released by the Income Security, Race and Health ISRH community-based research team in Toronto provide powerful qualitative evidence about the damaging consequences of precarious jobs. These reports Working Rough, Living Poor and Where are the Good Jobs? can be downloaded from: www.accessalliance.ca . The ISRH team focused on racialized Canadians because they are more affected by the growth in precarious employment and In the name of free market policies, Canada has seen a downward push on wages and a rise in unstable, temporary and unsafe jobs. These types of jobs are broadly referred to as precarious work or non-standard employment since they are marked by limited or no stability, benefits and protection. A recently released report by United Way Toronto and McMaster University, Its More Than Poverty , found that 40 per cent of workers in the Greater Toronto Area-Hamilton region are in precarious types of employment. The Law Commission of Ontarios recent report, Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work , has documented how lax employment standards and occupational health and safety regulations are making an increasing number of workers more vulnerable to bad working conditions and exploitation. Research also shows that immigrants, racialized people visible minorities and women tend to be overrepresented in these types of jobs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.